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Your rant and the issues around keeping an ecosystem pinned to a mess of incompatible tech reminds me of the time that mpng support was pulled/not merged into F

Your rant and the issues around keeping an ecosystem pinned to a mess of incompatible tech reminds me of the time that mpng support was pulled/not merged into Firefox because it added too size of the binary. Which was then obviated by the first download of an animated gif. Petabytes in bandwidth and disk storage wasted because FF decided saving a couple hundred K on the png animation code. By not supporting sixels, it forces people to use a whole browser to show images. Graphics support in the terminal is more than just QoL for the users, it is also a power savings and a hardware lifetime issue. You are fighting the good fight.

csdvrx 5y ago
> Petabytes in bandwidth and disk storage wasted because FF decided saving a couple hundred K on the png animation code Indeed, penny wise but pound foolish... and I guess they were proud of themselves! > You are fighting the good fight. Thanks, hopefully due to kicking the ant nest with my rants and now sixel-tmux, VTE will be forced to deliver something, anything really, even if it may be 6 years too late and not enabled by default (!!) At least Linux distributions would have the possibility to compile it in? But at this point, even that I can't believe. I think they will weasel out at the last minute with some half-baked more or less plausible excuse, like your example about firefox code increasing by a few kb. My hopes for gnome are extremely low, so "I'll believe it when I can see it" and not before, say when it's shipping in Ubuntu.